Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.
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I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
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Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.
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And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?
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I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
